The ‘’woodpecker in All of Us” talks about the Ivory-billed woodpecker, a bird that has been rediscovered after being extinct for 61 years. Some say that the sighting of the bird can mean a second chance of saving the wildlife that once was extinct. Due to advancing civilization, it has endangered the animal’s ecosystem and wild life. “The ivory bill is a perfect emblem of our own paradoxical relationship to the American wilderness, of what is lost and what can be recovered”. (Rosen, Jonathan. “The Woodpecker In All of Us.” N.Y. Times, 3 May 2005). “Really Looking” is the rural life writing of the authors thoughts, of challenging himself to take a look at life and all the little things that surround it.
